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422A.10 SALARY DEDUCTIONS.
    Subdivision 1. Member contribution; deductions. (a) There must be deducted and withheld
from the basic salary, pay or compensation of each employee in the contributing class an amount
equal to 9-1/4 percent of such salary, pay or compensation, except as hereinafter provided.
(b) The retirement board may increase the percentage rate of contribution to the retirement
fund of any employee or employees for the purpose of establishing and maintaining on an
actuarial basis a plan of insurance, survivors' benefits, or other type of benefit or benefits, the
cost of which must be paid out of such extra percentage so authorized and deducted from the
employee's compensation, except as hereinafter provided. Any plan or plans so established and
placed in operation may be amended from time to time, or may be abandoned, but if abandoned,
any surplus remaining from the operation of a plan must be the property of the fund, and must be
credited to the reserve for loss in investment account.
    Subd. 2. Mandatory member contributions. Every employee to whom this chapter applies
is deemed to consent and agree to the deductions made and provided for herein, and payment with
such reductions, for service, are a full and complete discharge and acquittance of all claims and
demands for all services rendered by such person during the period covered by such payment;
except the person's claim to the benefits to which the person may be entitled under the provisions
of this chapter.
    Subd. 3. Option to increase contributions. Subject to such terms and conditions and to
such rules and regulations as the retirement board may adopt, any contributor from time to time
may increase or decrease the contributor's rate of contribution to the retirement fund, but in no
event shall the contribution be less than the minimum contribution specified in the provisions
of this chapter.
History: 1973 c 133 s 10; 1974 c 73 s 2; 1979 c 293 s 8; 1979 c 303 art 6 s 8; 1986 c
444; 1Sp2005 c 8 art 10 s 69,70,80

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